This Week In The WCW

This Week In The WCW



Note from Bill: MANY, MANY thanks to Ben J. for his {Pro} and Nitro reports. Ben will be the regular Sunday night reporter from now on as I will be 30,000 feet in the air whenever {Pro} airs for the next few months.
As for the Nitro report, here comes the drama. I get to my hotel (well, actually motel) room on Sunday night, and the TV doesn't carry TNT. So, I leave the girlfriend an urgent voicemail to send Ben (who I've only ever corresponded with via e-mail) an e-mail asking him to do a Nitro report and mail it to me at my work e-mail so I can get it and post it and have him send a copy to my personal e-mail to store when I get home. This is all dependent on him checking his e-mail before Nitro. So, tonight, I get back to my motel room and can't figure out how to make the modem work until this little plastic card falls out of the phone revealing the data port. Then, I dial up my work e-mail and I can't get through to my mailbox. So, I dial up my ISP manually and connect. Of course, I haven't loaded an e-mail package on my laptop since I'm getting a new one in a week or two. So, I telnet to my ISP (note this is all going on at long distance rates from Phoenix, AZ to Northern Virginia) and use UNIX Pine mail in the hopes, perchance, a Nitro report is there. Lo and behold it is. After a few more minutes at long distance rates figuring out how to export the message from Pine and then FTP it down, I've got it. A little reformatting, and we're good to go.
Anyway, two points to the story. The less important one is that for the remainder of my stint in Phoenix, I'm staying in a better hotel which I happen to know does have TNT, so this near fiasco shouldn't happen again (I hope). The more important one is that, if you have a moment, please click on Ben's name above his report and send him an e-mail if you like what you read. Especially, if you didn't get a chance to see Nitro, if it wasn't for him checking his e-mail yesterday and taking the time to put this together, you wouldn't have had a report on this Nitro until probably the following Saturday. I'm counting on him to do the Sunday {Pro} reports for the next few months, so please stroke his ego. Lord knows, just like me, he's not making a dime off this.

WCW Monday Night Nitro - Monday, 06/23/97

By Ben J.


WCW {Pro} Wrestling - Sunday, 06/22/97


By Ben J.

WCW Saturday Night - Saturday, 06/21/97


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